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I know @dunelm

I really don't get it, the smart meter saying that £7:23 is excessive usage for the week, and that I have exceeded my electricity allowance. It gave me a serious nightmare, and stopped my heart for a second. I just use electricity as we all do and expect it to be delivered to me. My bills are paid on time (dd), and I am £313 in credit, mostly because I knew this winter might be horrendous and I kept voluntarily paying extra on monthly direct debit since early this year. So, that at the very least I can keep one room (bedroom) and me as warm as I need it to be.

I found my woolly hat thanks, but it's not warm enough now I have had my Russian hat on all night!

Thanks for the artwork compliment
 
A brilliant description of the current state of icy roads @dunelm
I wonder what the colour will look like on this....
 
I have found it useful for costing the electricity, but this scare was not good.

Thanks for the painting compliment
I don't know what the red planet is either @Annb
 
14.12
9.10am FBG 5.8
Kiki was yelling for her breakfast this morning. I could hear her upstairs. We had overslept, so I am hoping this is a one off. Her normal request for help, (open door, rescue from tree) is very discreet, easily missed, but this morniing she really let rip.
The ground outside is covered in a thin layer of tiny ice pieces. Looks like snow from a distance, but much more slippery. There are icicles on the woodshed too.
 
Good morning from a bright, icy region of what looks and feels like pre-Aslan Narnia - there is a settlement called Nornia just outside Ely - all you Frazzled British persons. Especial hugs for you @gennepher with "that message" which is unsettling when first seen. Sent me scurrying spreadsheetwards initially. Your plan to overpay and that usage are excellent. Eon-next feel our bill should be £3k annually which seems (oddly?) to be based on the fictitious £2.5k average plus 2 pensioner uplift but it is what it is. JKP, grandchildren and MIL - in common with many if not most -are suffering enough due to 12 years of neglect and alternative reality from the Lords of Misrule. Especially the 2 B words none may question, even under oath. Paul "Heatas" just quoted me £5k to install a wood burner with twin wall flue. So dear spreadsheet, how long does the NHS need to keep itself alive and me above ground to "repay" the outlay. Would the money be better spent on moving somewhere I actually like? Vote now, calls cost £1 a minute if you still have a landline or tin can with lots of string. Anyhow, are houses really selling in this omnishambles? Fees plus the difference in prices dwarf that. First world problems I know and life can't all be reduced to spreadsheets, eh Jez -N- Rishi? @gennepher thanks for the creative. I think it pairs really well with today's poem which I'll post later so this doesn't grow like Topsy. @dunelm I hope the new BP meds work better all round and thanks for the latest stage of the art. @jjraak looking good on all counts - congratulations. Nativity and concert went well yesterday. The angel was a born performer and the pianist was nervous as can be but faultless. He was so much more relaxed on the drums later. I need to finish making almond milk so full speed ahead and dam the smart meter message. My MP has published extracts from his diary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ace-everyone-calls-to-say-how-marvellous-i-am. BFN posse.
 
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Completely ignore Kiki when she does that. Yes you might have missed a couple of her more subtle requests. We cannot pick them all up.

Midnight now tends to go in the kitchen late evening, and I shut the door to the rest of the bungalow, because he visits Jade several times a night on the swing outside. This gives me room in bed at night. So, because the mornings are dark, I can be up later. So, when I opened the door to the kitchen, there was a wailing heavyweight banshee launching itself at me wanting breakfast. .

I ignored it while I made my cuppa tea,and had a rice cake with butter that morning. I didn't make him wait until I had prepared all my breakfast, then I turned to Midnight, gave him all my attention and stroking and nice words and he asked for biscuits first (he sits by the bowl allocated for that particular food), and then I asked him if he wanted wet food (he doesn't always want that, but squeaks like a mouse at me if it is what he wants and I am holding the sachet up, and so on.

He doesn't do the aggressive asking any more, but if he wants food and I have no intention of getting up that minute, he goes into excessive loving mode. He will give me kisses on my face (yuck to that), but he gives me the slow eye blink, and more facial loving, then wraps himself round my neck like a fox fur, and goes straight to sleep. I cannot do a thing then, with a heavy weight fox fur round my neck. I say, I give up, at this point, and he leaps off me in joy, and I get the follow command from him, and obediently follow my master into the kitchen...last night it was because someone (stray cat?) had stolen his supper. Fair enough...

You make your rules with Kiki, and stick to them @SlimLizzy
 
It was a shock when first seen, but I don't like that I cannot turn it off, and I find that message continually scrolling very unnerving, and raises tension in me. If it said something like "Alert - you have used more than usual" or some such thing, then I would find that okay...probably!

I wanted a wood burner as well, but alas, some idiot installed the then central heating boiler in the fireplace grate area, and all the pipes with it. People I had out, said yeah we can do it, until they saw the boiler in the fire grate with all its pipes, and suddenly they were not free any more...


Glad the Angel did well!

Enjoy your almond milk.

I am thinking of making a big fire pit in the garden...I have enough dry wood to burn...

I did buy a nice sharp shiny axe last week, justo to cut up my wood into kindling. Last time I handled a grown ups axe was when I was about 6 years old, my job that day, on the farm, was to cut up the wood into kindling. I can still visualise myself doing it....
 
Advent poem for today here https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2021/12/14/autumn-by-david-baird-6/ This one works for me as an observation of the changing seasons, little dig at when Christmas should actually be celebrated and on a deeper level. I like the later resonance of the artwork for the artist. Perhaps you may meet such a man as George, find, read, do or eat something, go somewhere, see or realise something which previously had no resonance. None of those are targets. Y’all have enough of those already, They, like that smart meter, just create anxiety. Don’t go looking though, “it” doesn’t work like that. “The glance” just comes unexpectedly. Relax, we got this but only ultimately. Do the right thing because it is right but don't expect the right result. Now there’s a pithy sermon I’ve never heard. (Please miss, please miss I know the answer to the attached. Along with my working out) Enjoy your day.
 

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Obviously people can spend their own money as they wish but the attached seems disconnected from the heating v eating struggle of so many. How many factors such as this are counted in and distort the inflation figure - either way - as felt by most? There's obviously a reason pubs and clubs are closing.
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Good mid cold Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and those who follow the fashion of their own personal youth, long hair, bell bottoms etc for some who read these postings.

Another 4.6 on that meter of disaster this Morening.

8:45am and Mrs J’s mobile Startrek communicator rang, yep it was the GP’s diabetic nurse wanting to review my diabetic results, unusually the nurse was pleased with my results and almost happy, managing a giggle when I mixed up the word incompetent with incontinence. If you are wondering why they rang Mrs J’s communicator, they don’t have my number, if you’re not in my address book your call is not answered. It’s my phone and my rules. Only one last appointment now and that’s the skin clinic next week. So that’s 5 out 6 completed. Then we start again in the new year.

Isn’t this cold spell wonderful? Personally I don’t think so, but somebody must be loving it, please keep them away from me, I don’t fancy doing a spell in the nick for GBH, hmmm I wonder what the temperature is set at in prisons, bet the do gooders make sure it’s warm.

Stay safe, stay warm and start thinking about New Years resolutions to ignore.
 
Em thinks it's wonderful. She's been outside making a snowman since coming from school. The snow has inspired her creativity. I was more interested in keeping the door shut and the cold outside where it belongs.
 
jjraak said:
Good to hear there IS a reason
AND a treatment plan.

As an avid viewer of #ArchieWatch, I hope we can look forward to many more years of updates on one of my fav 'Dogs of the Forum'

Long may he romp freely on his many walks.
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@jjraak he slept though the night and no accidents and this morning went on his normal walk. He has had a very good life. The average age of a Chocolate Labrador is 10 and he is now 16years and 2 months old.
 
gennepher said:
I don't use much electricity. I have always been economical, and I prefer cold air (not quite this cold though). The smart meter was telling me off for using £7:23p worth of electricity this week!!!!!!!!!
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Your smart meter has gone completely bonkers @gennepher. You say that you are economical with your electricity - but that is a complete understatement. Our electricity usage isn't huge but we can only dream of using only £7.23p per week.

When we had solar panels installed we were investigated by our power supplier. They installed a new meter twice. We got so fed up with their visits that we told them we would switch to another supplier if they carried on. In the end they accepted that our solar panels were working really well.
 
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